Webster's Dictionary 1913

4105

Fuage

Fu″age (?), n. Same as Fumage.

4106

Fuar

Fu″ar (?), n. Same as Feuar.

4107

Fub

Fub (?), Fubs (�), n. [Cf. Fob a pocket.] A plump young person or child. Smart.

4108

Fub (2)

Fub, v. t. [The same word as fob to cheat.] To put off by trickery; to cheat.I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fabbed off, from this day to that day. Shak.

4109

Fubbery

Fub″ber‐y (?), n. Cheating; deception. Marston.

4110

Fubby

{ Fub″by (?), Fub″sy (?) } a. Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa.A fubsy, good-humored, silly... old maid. Mme. D'Arblay.

4111

Fucate

{ Fu″cate (?), Fu″ca‐ted (?) } a. [L. fucatus, p. p. of fucare to color, paint, fr. fucus.] Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.

4112

Fuchs

‖Fuchs (?), n.(German Univ.) A student of the first year.

4113

Fuchsia

Fuch″si‐a (?), n.; pl. E. Fuchsias (#), L. Fuchsiæ (#). [NL. Named after Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, w...

4114

Fuchsine

Fuch″sine (?), n. [Named by the French inventor, from Fuchs a fox, the German equivalent of his own name, Renard.] (Chem.) Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a met...

4115

Fucivorous

Fu‐civ″o‐rous (?), a. [Fucus + L. vorare to eat.] (Zoöl.) Eating fucus or other seaweeds.

4116

Fucoid

Fu″coid (?), a. [Fucus + -oid.] (Bot.) (a) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideæ) which are blackish in color, and produce oöspores which are not fertilized until t...

4117

Fucoid (2)

Fu″coid, n.(Bot.) A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a.

4118

Fucoidal

Fu‐coid″al (?), a. 1. (Bot.) Fucoid.2. (Geol.) Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone.

4119

Fucus

Fu″cus (?), n.; pl.Fuci (#). 1. A paint; a dye; also, false show.2. (Bot.) A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.☞ Formerly most ...

4120

Fucusol

Fu″cu‐sol (?), n. [Fucus + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.) An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.

4121

Fud

Fud (?), n. 1. The tail of a hare, coney, etc. Burns.2. Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.

4122

Fudder

Fud″der (?), n. See Fodder, a weight.

4123

Fuddle

Fud″dle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.,Fuddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Fuddling (?).] [Perh. formed as a kind of dim. of full. Cf. Fuzzle.] To make foolish by drink; to cause to become in...

4124

Fuddle (2)

Fud″dle, v. i. To drink to excess.

4125

Fuddler

Fud″dler (?), n. A drunkard. Baxter.

4126

Fudge

Fudge (?), n. [Cf. Prov. F. fuche, feuche, an interj. of contempt.] A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; — often an exclamation of contempt.

4127

Fudge (2)

Fudge, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Fudged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Fudging.] 1. To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate; as, he never did the experiment, and merely fudged the data.F...

4128

Fudge (3)

Fudge, n. A kind of soft candy composed of sugar or maple sugar, milk, and butter, and often chocolate or nuts, boiled and stirred to a proper consistency.

4129

Fudge wheel

Fudge″ wheel″ (?). (Shoemaking) A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.

4130

Fuegian

Fu‐e″gi‐an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego. — n. A native of Terra del Fuego.

4131

Fuel

Fu″el (?), n. [OF. fouail, fuail, or fouaille, fuaille, LL. focalium, focale, fr. L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LL., fire. See Focus.] [Formerly written also fewel.] 1. Any mat...